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Headstone of Samuel and Esther (Easter) Bradley, Devonshire Street Cemetery c1901

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Ethel Foster
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State Library of New South Wales
[ON146/342]
(Mitchell Library)

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Foster, Ethel

Josephine Ethel Foster was a historian and photographer. She and her husband Arthur George Foster were two of the earliest members of the (now Royal) Australian Historical Society. They documented the Devonshire Street Cemetery in the early 1900s before its removal for the construction of the Central Railway station.

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Burial ground established in 1820 on the outskirts of colonial Sydney to replace the earlier burial ground on George Street. It was the city's main burial ground until the opening of Rookwood Cemetery. It officially closed in 1867, although people who had family vaults or previously purchased plots were still being buried there until much later. Also referred to as the Sandhills Cemetery due to its proximity to sandhills, it was resumed in 1901 to enable the building of Central Railway Station.